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Hanworth

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Hairy Rock-cress - Arabis hirsuta

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Purple Dead Nettle - Lamium purpureum

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Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea

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White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

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Speckled Wood - Pararge aegeria Female

Speckled Wood - UK Butterflies

Speckled Wood - Learn about Butterflies

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Rosary Rd Cemetery

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Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa Primrose - primula vulgaris

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Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

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Beech - Fagus sylvatica

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Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale & Yellow Fumitory - Corydalis lutea

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Yellow Fumitory - Corydalis lute

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Wood Sorrell - Oxalis acetosela

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Alderford Common

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Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa

Just delightful in the sun today.

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Wavy Bitter Cress - Cardemine flexuosa

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Moschatel - Adoxa moscahatellina



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Santon Downham

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Mandarin - Aix galericulata

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Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea



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Wayland Wood

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Hazel - Corylus avellana

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Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

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Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa







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Cromer

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Alexanders - Smyrnium olusatrum

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Harlequin Ladybird - Harmonia axyridis

Map showing invasion of this species in Europe since 2000

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Kelling Heath

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Gorse - Ulex europeus

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Western Gorse - Ulex gall

Flowers later in the year than one in flower at the moment.

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Ling - Calluna vulgaris

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Stone Pit Wood

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Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra

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Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale


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Santon Downham

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At least two pairs of Mandarin Ducks calling overhead. Just not quite quick enough to get the photo.

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Soft morning colours - just about sunrise.

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Looking for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers - to no vail this morning. But a brilliant soundscape of Redpoll from the Sallows nearby.

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Nuthatch - Sitta europaea prospecting nest hole. Having a good old barney with the local Great Tits.

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Otter - Lutra lutra

The most amazing of creatures. Mum, dad and one pup. Had a good walk down the river with them. Just brilliant.
Dad crossed the river, rose up on his legs, to give me a good stare and then floated off.

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Redgrave & Lopham Fen

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Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae

Shellduck
Bearded Tit
Stonechat


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Cavenham Heath

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One Stone Curlew head visible above the heather.

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Aspen - Populus tremula

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Long Tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudatus

Didn't manage to find an adder or two.

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Wayland Wood

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So delicately perfect. Almost the Tudor rose.

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Barren Strawberry - Potentilla sterilis

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Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) just about to flower.

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Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

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Early Dog-violet - Viola riechenbaciana

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The delicate hairs on the leaves really sang in the sunshine today.

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Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

The canopy was in full flower but couldn't stretch that far.

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Hanworth

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A party of Red Deer sunning themselves this afternoon.

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Lolly Moor

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Lolly Moor - NWT Reserve

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Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus

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Early Dog-Violet - Viola reichenbachiana

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Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage - Chrysosplenium oppositifolia

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Honeypot Wood

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Honeypot Wood - NWT Reserve

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Ash - Fraxinus excelsior

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Super old coppice stools in the wood. Ash, Hazel and

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Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

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Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna

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Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

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Hoe Rough

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At least 330 years old apparently.

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Magnificent trees


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The brilliant touch of red to the trees at the moment.

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Female Poplar catkins.


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Super old oak in the sunshine.


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Oak - Quercus robur


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Brambling - Fringilla monitfringilla
in the trees this morning nibbling at the new shoots
characteristically wheezing.





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Lakenheath Fen


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The poplars very shallow rooted with a root mass of about 20 ft across.

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The poplars glow red at this time of year from the female catkins. Perfect.

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Common Crane - Grus grus

Very distant but distinctive silhouettes but nice to hear them bugling.

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Wayland Wood

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Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

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Just coppiced

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One year coppice?

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Willow - Salix spp?

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Bird Cherry - Prunus pads

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Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyne

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Yellow Star of Bethlehem - Gagea lutea

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Comma - Polygonia c-album

Brimstone butterflies on the wing.
Chiffchaff singing
Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers
Marsh Tit

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Alderford Common

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Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

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Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

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Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina

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Lichen spp?

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Silver Birch seeds?

ChiffChaff singing
and
a
pair of Buzzards

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Hanworth

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Primrose - Primula vulgaris

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Stone Pit Wood

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Rusty Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

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Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia


and a

ChiffChaff
singing

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Kelling Heath

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2 singing Chiffchaffs this morning
4 Dartford Warblers

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Wood Lark singing

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Linnets singing away

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Yellow Hammers getting into the groove.

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Green Woodpecker
Buzzard
At least a 100 Redwing passing through.

and
a
Blackbird on a post

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Felbrigg Great Wood

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Beech - Fagus sylvatica

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Sweet Chestnut - Castanea sativa

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Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

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Purple Dead Nettle - Lamium purpureum

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Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna
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Moss Spp? Capsules

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Beeston Common

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Common Frog - Rana temporaria

Hundreds of frogs and oodles of frog spawn and an amazing croak.








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Cromer-Overstrand&Back

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Crocus. One of naturalised group at the top of the cliff at the edge of Cromer.

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Magpie - Pica pica

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Wet soggy clay cliffs just right for Coltsfoot.

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Looking towards Cromer from Overstrand.

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Coltsfoot - Tussilago farfara

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Glaucous Gull (Juvenile) - Larus hyperboreus

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Stone Pit Wood

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Liverwort spp?

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Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra



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Winter Heliotrope - Petasites fragrans

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Woodlouse

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One distant Redpoll of a party of thirty in the tops of the Birch, nibbling away.
and
a
Woodcock


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Slime Mould?

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Bracket Fungus Spp?

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Silver Birch - Betula pendula

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Kelling Heath






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Looking towards Cley

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Woodlark singing
and
a
snatch of Dartford Warbler song.
and
a
Yellow Hammer tuning up for the Spring





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Whitwell Common

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Santon Downham

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Largely grey and blustery. Just occasionally the sun shone through.

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Willow - Salix spp?

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Wonderful green bracket fungus. Spp??

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Alder (Alnus glutinous) caught between blusters of wind - just.

Redpoll, Siskin, Grey Wagtail

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